The Beijing government's open attitude towards arms exports is undoubtedly a means for Qin Kai to intervene forcefully in the changing situation in Europe...... The situation in Europe as a whole is ready to explode like a barrel of dynamite at any moment, and of course, it will take a little time...... Before the final intensification of the contradictions, in the history that he was familiar with, large-scale military conflicts broke out in succession, including the Italian-Turkish War and the First and Second Balkan Wars.

Since China already has a strong military force, there is no reason to make full use of the internal contradictions in Europe to plunder full benefits, of course, according to Qin Kai's step-by-step development strategy, China has no intention of directly intervening in military conflicts at all, after all, thousands of miles away in the Balkan Peninsula, the multi-ethnic shape of the place and the scum of the Ottoman Empire, especially the anti-Ottoman forces with the support of the Russian Empire, obviously occupy a great advantage.

The Peking government's initial orientation toward the sale of weapons abroad worked very well throughout 1897, and soon the German minister Wang Li reached a secret agreement with the Germans, and Wilhelm II's desire for the Berlin-Baghdad railway made him sign an agreement with China without hesitation.

In October, the German government and the Ottoman Empire secretly signed a memorandum of military cooperation, Germany decided to send the army officer corps to the Ottoman Empire to help the weakening old empire to regain military strength, of course, this qiē is not free service, the Ottoman Empire in order to obtain diplomatic and military support from the German Empire, will fully support Germany to build the Berlin and Baghdad railway connecting the Eurasian continent, and China, as a common friend of Germany and the Ottoman Empire, naturally gained greater influence......

November. Colonel He Xiaohai, the Chinese military attache in the Ottoman Empire, proposed to the Ottoman naval minister. Given the size of the Ottoman Empire, its weakly controlled territory encircled the entire Mediterranean and even Western Asia. The Chinese side hopes that the Ottoman Empire will build a truly modern marine corps to complement the Ottoman Navy, which will soon have dreadnoughts.

Abdulmihad II, as the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in fact did not have any enthusiasm for carrying out reforms at all, the old empire was sinking step by step, and the ignorance of feudal rule was an important reason.

But. As the most powerful trading partner and supplier of armaments to the Ottoman in the Far East, the Chinese officers' remarks largely represented the views of the Chinese government, so the Ottoman War Minister Mahmud quickly proposed a compromise plan, expressing his willingness to accept China's proposal, but considering the problem of the Ottoman Empire's military spending, it was hoped that the Chinese officer corps would complete the training of the marines while assisting in the training of the navy.

Hardly any further mention from the Ottoman side, Colonel Ho Xiaohai immediately implemented the plan of the Mahmoodi Minister of War in a very swift manner, and two army officers, Colonel Enver and Lieutenant Colonel Kemal, both graduates of the Ottoman Army University. became his newly appointed commander of the Marine Corps, the month he was appointed. The two commanders were invited to visit Far East China aboard a Chinese naval warship.

Colonel Enver, a slightly older Turkish officer, and Lieutenant Colonel Kemal, a steady hawkish officer, were naturally surprised by his new order, but the official letter signed by the Ottoman army minister clearly did not contain any objections, and the Chinese brought them far more surprise than their earlier visit to Germany and their service in the Syrian infantry regiment.

In fact, Colonel He Xiaohai, who was in charge of this secret mission, was completely unable to understand the secret order from home and assist the Ottomans in strengthening their weak navy, which is completely understandable, Bijin Ottoman Empire across Europe and Asia, supporting this force is enough to threaten China's sworn enemy, the Russian Empire, and the stricter the Balkan problem, the more troublesome Europe will be!

When he met the young Lieutenant Colonel Kemal, he immediately realized that this young soldier had some unique potential, compared to all the Ottoman generals he had seen before, this big-nosed Turk was obviously an extremely pure soldier, and this was obviously a good target worth spending money on to cultivate.

In January of the following year, when two Turkish servicemen arrived in Pontianak, the capital of South China, on the frigate Xinyang, a strange ship that had never been seen before in the Jiangnan Shipyard was launched, which was based on the large naval supply ship Dongguan, and the first generation of the Jiangsu aircraft carrier was built after reducing the armor and modifying the superstructure.

With a displacement of 22,000 tons and a total length of 181.1 meters, it adopts a watertight cabin anti-sinking design, a total of 20 large watertight cabins are set up, and 25 JN03 water-tube boilers and 3 PTIII large steam turbines are installed, with a maximum power of 45,000 horsepower, which is enough for the 20,000-ton long battleship to obtain a speed of more than 25 knots, and 25 naval Tissot II torpedo attack aircraft are equipped for the Jiangsu aircraft carrier.

After the breakthrough of the Tissot II aircraft, it quickly formed a large-scale construction, however, because the power of the CC-V8A water-cooled 8-cylinder piston engine was already good in this era, but the 220 horsepower driven double-bladed propeller power, after hanging a 480mm, weighing 600 kg torpedo, the flight speed of the aircraft was quickly reduced to 100 kilometers, and the ceiling was also reduced a lot, and it could only be maintained at an altitude of about 1000 meters.

The Ministry of Military Affairs gave a dead order that the training results must be achieved within two years, and this generation of aircraft carrier commanders immediately turned into tyrants and carried out training almost day and night, with the result that after the first quarter, except for a few flight officers who could not bear the intensity of this training and asked to return to the air force, the rest of the pilots participating in the training were able to complete the aircraft carrier take-off and landing of the scheduled project.

At about the same time, the Turkish officers from Istanbul had already visited South China, Singapore, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and Shanghai, and on February 7, 1908, they were received by Xu Shoushan, the chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

In their view, the Ottoman Empire and Far East China, which also have a long history, obviously have very similar historical backgrounds, so what China can achieve, the Ottoman Empire should achieve the same results after the reforms...... But it was clear that the Ottoman empire needed more than simply importing the Chinese experience.

Xu Shoushan told two Turkish military officers, Turkey's trainees, that China would do everything it could to help them train a new army that had always belonged only to marines, and that it would pre-allocate all armaments, including artillery, to this army, and that the commitment he needed to give was only to devote himself to the modernization of the Ottoman army, and how to repay the military expenses was not covered by the current contract.

This almost costless thing really surprised Colonel Enver and Lieutenant Colonel Kemal, but they wisely chose to avoid these political mines...... Five days later, when Colonel He Xiaohai accompanied two Ottoman soldiers aboard the large merchant ship "Lancang", the 6,000-ton cargo ship was loaded with enough armament to equip a brigade. (To be continued......)